My problem with the library referendum runs like this. For the past
10-15 years the downtown business interested have been getting tax
breaks, year by year and nibble by nibble. We are now at a point where
it will be the neighborhood tax payers who will bankroll the downtown
library improvements, meant to benefit downtown businesses primarily.
Does everyone know that a skyway to a commercial building is in the
design? Whenever we in the neighborhoods cry out for something, the
downtown business interests lose no time in telling the neighborhoods
that there is no free lunch. So I say no free lunch downtown, too and
will vote No on the library referendum. Let the downtown interests pay
for their new library. The downtown library is hard to get to, there is
no parking to speak of, so it can't be said to be of much benefit to the
people in the neighborhoods.
John Ferman
Harriet Avenue
Kingfield Neighborhood
Minneapolis
Ward 10 Pct 10
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